Chapter 52. Bonus Chapter

[Denali’s POV]

“Alright, this way.” Rosco’s voice is right beside my ear, and it sends pleasant tingles through me, but before I can get lost in them, I stumble. “Careful.”

“Tell me why I need to be blindfolded again." I sigh, slowly navigating my way downstairs with his help.

I understood that it was Christmas and that Rosco wanted to surprise me, but was it truly necessary to go through all this trouble? For most of the day, I was stuck upstairs, ordered to stay in bed until he came to get me.

“Because all of this is a surprise,” he sighs, kissing my cheek. “Can’t you just humor me, princess?”

I could, but stumbling downstairs was making me nervous. Although I completely trusted Rosco to not let me fall, just being out of control had me on edge. I guess it was because of how out of control my life was before I married Rosco. It seemed that the residual trauma was still strong in me.

“We are almost there,” Rosco murmurs, snapping me out of m